Like the azure waters of the Aegean, this cookbook invites readers to dive in. When they do they’ll find refreshment and restoration. The author revitalizes readers with whole-hearted passion and unceasing hospitality through the Greek... Read More

“Perch was old and wise, and she knew it was time to tell her friend what happens to every tadpole. Polliwog, one day you will change and leave the pond.” Stubborn and unwilling to accept change, Polliwog disagrees. She is happy with... Read More

When the author, forty-something, single, and an admitted “compulsive reader of the classifieds,” spies a notice of cottages for sale, she is immediately intrigued. The thought of adding to her very small Cape Cod house with a... Read More

“Some damages are never wholly corrected,? writes the author. Her memoir depicts a chasm within her character as a youth-an uncontrolled urge for sex-which plunged her into the abyss of misbegotten relationships, especially with a... Read More

An armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, the author has spent much of the thirty-five years since then coming to terms with what the war meant to him emotionally, and what its cultural and historical legacy has been for America.... Read More

Sir Gregor MacGregor (1786?1845), con man extraordinaire, was known for his “intemperate and unusual enjoyments.” Denied these, he might have made his name as a military officer, a liberator of Spain’s New World colonial... Read More

“As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world,” said Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1901. “If we lose India, we shall drop straightaway to a third-rate power.?” In 1583 English traders arrived in India; in... Read More

The things of childhood, particularly the playthings, remain in memory intimately associated with earliest pleasures. This new book for the nostalgic and trivia-minded-for any former child who from time to time thinks fondly of Cooties... Read More